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  • Macleans

    Pierre Trudeau as a Comics Writer?

    The oh-so-'60s tale of Michel Choquette and The Someday Funnies - the monumental comics collection that never happened (yet) - is one of the fabled hangovers of the 20th century's most culturally tumultuous decade.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on August 24, 2009

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    Pierre Vadeboncoeur

    Pierre Vadeboncoeur, essayist (b at Strathmore, near Montréal, 1920). A man of thought and action who became a full-time writer fairly late in life, Vadeboncoeur has in the last 20 years contributed several major works to the literature of ideas.

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    Pierre Vallières

    Pierre Vallières, writer (b at Montréal 22 Feb 1938; d Dec 1998). Vallières was a journalist in Montréal before joining the FRONT DE LIBÉRATION DU QUÉBEC (FLQ) in 1965.

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    Pierre Vidor

    Pierre (b Russell) Vidor (b Trépanier). Tenor, choir conductor, policeman, b Louiseville, near Trois-Rivières, Que, 3 Sep 1907. He began to study trumpet but turned to singing, which he studied in Montreal with various teachers.

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    Pierre-Yves Asselin

    Pierre-Yves Asselin. Organist, teacher, b Montreal 6 Oct 1950; B MUS (McGill) 1975, PH D (Paris) 1983. Pierre-Yves Asselin received an early training in music from his father, who was a cellist and choirmaster. At eight he was accepted as a member of the Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal.

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    Pierrette Alarie

    Alarie won the 'Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air' in 1945 and made her Metropolitan Opera debut 8 Dec 1945 as Oscar in Un Ballo in Maschera under Bruno Walter; in January she sang Olympia in The Tales of Hoffmann with Raoul Jobin, conducted by Wilfrid Pelletier.

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    Pierrette Lepage

    Pierrette (Marie Ethel Claudette) Lepage. Pianist, teacher, b Montreal 25 May 1939; B MUS (Laval) 1952, Artist Diploma (Toronto) 1959, BA (Toronto) 1960.

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    Piet Molenaar

    Piet (Peter) Molenaar. Violin maker, born at Indonesia, of Dutch parents, 2 Aug 1903, naturalized Canadian 1957, died 1994. He was educated in Holland and his prime interest was chemistry, but he also studied violin in The Hague and, ca 1919, with Alfred Indig.

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    Pietro Masella

    Pietro (Ottavio) Masella. Oboist, teacher, b Montreal 6 Jan 1924, d there 10 Mar 2007. Pietro Masella took his first oboe lessons from Giuseppe Agostini in 1935. His first experience as an orchestra player was in the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (MSO) under the baton of Bruno Walter in 1941.

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    Pietro Romano

    Pietro Romano. French hornist, b Naples 30 May 1907, naturalized Canadian 1932, d Montreal 13 Nov 1966. He started to play the french horn at five. Arriving in Canada at 13, he began playing at the Imperial Theatre in an orchestra led by his half-brother, Giulio.

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    Pinchas Zukerman (Profile)

    Pinchas Zukerman silences the 46-member NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE Orchestra with a frustrated wince. The musicians' rehearsal of Mendelssohn's Sinfonia No.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on October 18, 1999

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    Pitseolak Ashoona

    Pitseolak Ashoona, CM, artist (born between 1904 and 1908 on Nottingham Island (Tujajuak), NWT; died 28 May 1983 in Cape Dorset, NWT). Among the first generation of Inuit printmakers, Pitseolak Ashoona was born en route from Nunavik in arctic Québec to the south coast of Baffin Island (Qikagtaaluk). She is known for her lively prints and drawings, which show "the things we did long ago before there were many white men" and for her imaginative renderings of spirits and monsters.

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    P.J. Perry

    In 1975 he moved to Edmonton, working extensively with Tommy Banks' jazz group, big band, and studio orchestra, with his own jazz band, and (on call) with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (he played the alto saxophone solo in that orchestra's recording of Ibert's suite Paris).

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    P. K. Page (Patricia Kathleen Page)

    Patricia Kathleen Page, poet, prose writer, visual artist (b at Swanage, Dorset, England 23 Nov 1916, d at Victoria, BC 14 Jan 2010). With her family, P.K. Page left England in 1919 and settled in Red Deer, Alberta. 

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    Platinum Blonde

    Platinum Blonde. Pop group. It was formed in Toronto in 1982 by the singer-songwriter and bass guitarist Mark Holmes with the guitarist Sergio Galli and the drummer Chris Steffler, who was replaced in 1987 by Sascha (Tukatsch). Kenny MacLean (guitar, bass guitar, keyboards) was added in 1985.

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